[Ica-osgeo-labs] Mediterranean Drought Worst in 900 Years

[Finn, Michael]

Patrick et al.,

Relative to your Smart Cities initiative, have you seen this parallel (?)
effort:
http://www.gim-international.com/content/news/ordnance-survey-seeking-for-european-smart-city-standards
.

Mike



On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Dear Open Solution Providers, a plea and a plan. . .
>
> The existential-sized problem we must face of climate change can have no
> stronger indication than this:
>
> http://eijournal.com/news/industry-insights-trends/mediterranean-drought-worst-in-900-years
>
> This mega-drought will not only dramatically affect access to fresh water,
> agriculture and hydro power, but the little rain we do get is increasingly
> coming in torrential bursts that can do as much damage to infrastructure as
> it does to alleviate the drought. Asia, Australia and the Americas are
> experiencing as much. Each year for the last several, have trended warmer
> than the next. No rocket science required to see where this takes us.
>
> Cities need to be working collaboratively on the tools to manage urban
> infrastructure, saving money and increasing innovation for sustainable
> solutions, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
>
> This is not simply Climate Change, this is climate unraveling (and society
> in its wake) per the graph of annual temperature on this page,
> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=87359
>
> And the video on this page,
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-reveal-record-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015
>
> The cities of the world must find a way to work in each other's interest.
> OpenCitySmart is a beautiful start! What university will step forward and
> begin this enterprise in earnest? It takes just one Computer Science
> department working with their local city to build the first OpenCitySmart
> solution. OpenCitySmart can be the first step on a journey the world can
> join and then take together. Cities working together can decide the
> direction this world moves toward, collaboration and camaraderie or
> isolation and frustration.
>
> -Patrick
>
>  Patrick.Hogan at nasa.gov
>  Program Manager
>  NASA World Wind
>  (650) 604-5656 (office)
>  (650) 269-2788 (cell)
>
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